My true freezes (complete nonresponsiveness) only happen every couple of real days, and then usually in the beginning minutes of play.

Even if "maxmotives" were to work, it would just happen later. You need to remove what is triggering the route fail, or clear a good path while restricting them from straying. I had a lot of this in my first creation, Dragon Cay. I have only had one sim oddly have this type of route failures in Asherton, and I believe it was something unique to her as no other sims had routing issues where she did. Killing her off two generations ago has eliminated those types of slowdowns.

To find the problem sim, enter "radar all" and pinpoint all sims that are not in their homes or in a workplace. Find sim, change household to their household. Teleport them out of the problem area. Then deal with whatever is causing the routing issue if you can find it. Enter "radar all off" to clear your map.

Apparently I am in for big legal payouts, since there are now at least 12 other Zazazus on the internet.

Sigmund wins, Jonas fails at spelling.

READ THE FUCKING FAQ.

Do not post in all caps. Do not whine that I'm being mean to you. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200.

You replied to a post from September. Just as then, no one cares.

Thanks for the advice, and I'll keep it in mind for my remake of a TS2 neighborhood of mine. As far as Asherton goes, I no longer care. I've burnt out on it. That's why I said that I'm done and threw the CAW files to the wind.

I'm wondering why you are even bothering with the launcher at all. Are you not using Awesomemod? With Awesomemod, you don't need to go through the launcher. You can start with the last EP/SP's .exe. Otherwise, gamecopyworld.com seems to have a fixed .exe for all latest patches.

As for installing Store items, all mine are "acquired" and I use the .dbc archives set up by other uploaders. If for some reason the .dbc archives won't work for you (if you like to pick and choose), download the .package versions. All are available.

The admins aren't Swedish. The admins are largely American. In other news: Read the fucking FAQ.

Ok, I'm officially pulling this offering. However, if those who are motivated want to play with the CAW files and see if you can eliminate the bugs, feel free to do so. You can keep it for your use or post fixed files here and you will get half credit. Here are the CAW files.

I've been playing the 'hood since I pulled the files and carpool issues are tempermental. Townie sims (those not actively played or chosen in other households than the one you are focusing on) seem to get to and from work just fine. It is the active household that has issues. I know that the diner, mausoleum, and sometimes the stadium work well, as does the spa and military base once moved one square away from the road. The stadium has intermittant issues. Police, Bistro, and Politics carpools are borked. This can be fixed by manually directing the sim to use a cab or by having them have a bike or Kenspa as primary vehicle. I can't speak for the other career lines as I haven't tested them as extensively.

I still love the 'hood as it is, but do not feel right about subjecting the masses to bugs I personally don't mind working around.
Pics from my own gameplay.

Nope. Haven't editsim'ed a single sim. I've done mirror and dresser, but not on Kristy or the other victim.

Have you had any insight in the three months since this was posted as to the cause or a possible fix for the midget bug? I've now had two in Asherton. The first one, I'm not sure what her true age was supposed to be. This second one (Kristy Carter) is supposed to be a child. Her true age is shown in the image. I was just checking days to adult on her older sister, Camilla Carter, because one of my chosen is waiting on her to age up so that he can move out of his mom's house with her.

Typical TS3 midget: teen head and clothing, child stature.

Your attitude was uncalled for and your advice was not correct or applicable to the question. He is not SOL. Pescado has provided actual advice regarding how he can use Awesomemod to do almost exactly what he wants; I have given an alternative solution to the aging problem only.

A better option for aging, if you are only playing two households in a neighborhood filled with sims you are treating as traditional townies, might be to toggle aging on and off. Age only in one household, or age a certain number of days in each. That way your townies won't be Jeffty'd.

God, you are such a douche. OP is ESL. You are annoying.

Dumbed down and probably purposely borked.

Mostly fixed version is in personal testing. I say "mostly" because there is a bit of road triangling over by the koi pond now. If I try to fix it, I get several other graphical/terrain anomalies, the worst of which is this:


That's way over on the other side of town. WHY GOD WHY?

As far as I know, things like that happen in the standard 'hoods. It's not something I would know how to fix in this one and would not be a focus.

I've spent 8 hours so far shoving shit around because every time I fix one thing, something else goes wonky...often on the complete opposite side of the 'hood. Then it will look perfect in CAW/Edit in Game, but be screwed up when I actually export it. Now 6 West Gardner is screwed up again, plus the hospital, plus the whole rear of Capital Hill (Zone B, South Park Ave). So damn frustrating!

I did the same thing. Still, after placing a zone, I'd start getting those lovely graphical errors caused by minor terrain ridging. Zone A, which is where Gardner Ave is and my bane, the housing development surrounding Small Park B, were the absolute worst for them. And it should have been all flat before, or so damn close as to not make a difference. I have lots built on a sloped road with no problem ever.

Pool and 6 Gardner are fixed now, but I also realized that the evil housing development is fucked again. I don't even know. I want to give up, but I'm too stubborn to.

Ok, office park carpool issue is rather strange. It seems that changing the lot types to "Graveyard" fixes it. I'm testing a couple of different rabbitholes in the three lots to make sure that all will work. For now, I'm pulling the download files until I can guarantee those are fixed, and check for issues with Small Park B (never have witnessed an issue before there, but creating 'hoods with CAW is very buggy and I don't discount it) as well as with 6 W Gardner and the public pool. Those issues normally can be fixed by redrawing the lot.

Grading road is a double-edged sword...I've found that more often than not it ends in screwing up things worse or further down. Flattening/smoothing land around it almost always ends in just moving the error. Redrawing the lot has almost always worked for me.

This is a recent issue. I didn't run into it in the pre-built version, and did not find it in my playtesting. However, here it is. I've noticed the same thing with the Bistro. I haven't touched those lots since pre-built.

I'll look it over and see if I can't find out what the issue is. My only thought is that perhaps re-placing the rabbitholes will unbork them. We'll see.

Post updated with built-up version.

Pescado, there is a pumpkin-colored house by the police station. However, we know it won't fit in your 'hood. Tell me what lot you want it for and I'll build one for you.

They did the same thing with TS2, so I fail to see any reason for surprise.

The Exchange is shit.

That's probably because it's what EA Tech always recommends as initial troubleshooting.

Go back to BoolProp or the BBS where you belong, 12.

For the unpopulated version? No. Just edit the diner lot and move the diner a couple of squares towards the road. All noted issues in this thread have been fixed on the WIP built up version, which is in personal testing as of tonight. I have an interview this week, but am looking to release the goods either this weekend or mid-week next week at the latest. The later time would be due to me getting the job, since I get to go shopping for the first time in ten months. Damn, I need to get my linen fix.

Yes, this is an issue that was discovered shortly after the community got hands on AL. A modular stairs/stage combination only works in one configuration in the neighborhood. In all other configurations, the upper floor is considered community space. You won't be able to move objects around upstairs and without appropriate hacks, you will have neighbors jonesing for your things up there.

One fix is, as Tarlia said, to replace with a straight flight of stairs or a spiral. Another is to build a test lot and experiment with directions on your stair/stage combinations until you find the one that works, then rebuild this apartment. For me, I had to have the stairs parallel to each other and along a particular axis.

Click on the lot icon (park bench). There should be a button with a lock on it. Click that. Now try bulldozing.